Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

But Not You, O Girl, Nor Yet His
Mother,
stretched His Eyebrows So Fierce With
Expectation.
Not For Your Mouth, You Who Hold Him
Now,
did His Lips Ripen Into These Fervent
Contours.
Do You Really Think Your Quiet
Footsteps
could Have So Convulsed Him, You Who
Move Like Dawn Wind?
True, You Startled His Heart; But Older
Terrors
rushed Into Him With That First Jolt
To His Emotions.
Call Him . . . You'll Never Quite
Retrieve Him From Those Dark Consorts.
Yes, He Wants To, He Escapes; Relieved,
He Makes A Home
in Your Familiar Heart, Takes Root
There And Begins Himself Anew.
But Did He Ever Begin Himself?

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